What We Can Do Together
Dance Performance About Resilience and Longing
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- NTGent, Gent
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NL
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Eight unique performers of diverse cultural backgrounds, genders, dance styles, and physical abilities, embark on a voyage of discovery in this new production by Lisi Estaras, exploring the surprising reality of the other. They are accompanied by the live sounds of Belgian percussion trio spëcht.
Programme
- Lisi Estaras / MonkeyMind Company / Unmute Dance Company / spëcht - What We Can Do Together
Created with Hannah Bekemans, Nadine McKenzie, Elie Tass, Andile Vellem, Joseph Tebandeke, Zoë Chungong, Sophie Warnant and Julia Luna Dierens
Performers
MonkeyMind Company & Unmute Dance Company
- Hannah Bekemans, dance
- Nadine McKenzie, dance
- Elie Tass, dance
- Andile Vellem, dance
- Dora Almeleh, dance
- Adonis Nébié, dance
- Sophie Warnant, dance
- Melanie Lomoff, dance
spëcht
- Simon Leleux, percussion
- Robbe Kieckens, percussion
- Célestin Massot, percussion
- Lisi Estaras, concept and choreography
- Sara Vanderieck, dramaturgy
- Gabriel Chwojnik, compositon
- Helmut Van den Meersschaut, light and scenography
- Louis Verlinde, costume design and scenography
- Laurens Ingels, sound
- Marjan Colombie en Julia Luna Dierens, assistance
- Nicole Petit, management and production
Due to unforeseen circumstances, two dancers with a disability had to be replaced at very short notice. Their roles are being taken over by dancers without a disability.
Production from MonkeyMind vzw in coproduction with Flanders Festival Ghent
In coproduction with
- Charleroi danse - centre chorégraphique de Wallonie - Bruxelles
- December Dance Festival Brugge
- Dorky Park in residence in Volksbühne Berlin
- Perpodium vzw
With the support of STUK Leuven (residence) en laGeste (studio).
With thanks to Platform K, Ghent.
MonkeyMind receives structural funding from the City of Ghent for a period of three years and is supported for this project by the Flemish Government. This production was realized with the support of the Tax Shelter measure of the Belgian Federal Government through Flanders Tax Shelter through uFund.
Location
The performance takes place in NTGent Schouwburg.
Address: Sint-Baafsplein 17, 9000 Gent
Practical
- Ticket desk: 20:00
- Start performance: 20:30
- Expected end time: 21:45
- No intermission is provided
- There is a cloak room available
- There are free toilets available
Accessibility
NTGent Schouwburg is accessible to wheelchair users via ramps along both entrance sides. The theatre is accessible via a lift, the available seats (mobile chairs) are located at the back of the parterre. An adapted toilet is available.If you are coming to the festival with a wheelchair, it is recommended that you let us know via toegankelijkheid@festival.be. That way we can take this into account, provide appropriate seating and extra guidance if necessary.
Assistance dogs are allowed.
If you would like to be prepared for a visit to NTGent, a Visual Story can help you with this. You can find it here. A Visual Story is a tool (originally developed as a Social Story), a description of a social situation with the aim of providing insight into social cues, where the story is connected to the specific situation of a person with autism. NTGent developed a Visual Story about coming to see a theatre performance.
Do you have specific needs or require additional facilities? Contact Fien Straetmans for this at toegankelijkheid@festival.be or +32 491 45 26 78.
Mobility
The nearest bicycle parking facilities can be found in Maaseikstraat.
You can find more information about how to reach NTGent here.
Ticket information
More information on tickets you can find here.
| CATEGory | pricing |
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| Category 1 | €28,00 |
| Category 2 | €20,00 |
| UiTPAS with a reduction rate | Tickets Gent |
